Book Review, Kirsten Campbell, The Justice of Humans: Subject, Society and Sexual Violence in International Criminal Justice (2022)

Authors

Shannon Fyfe, Washington and Lee University School of LawFollow

Document Type

Book Review

Publication Title

Social & Legal Studies

Publication Date

2023

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1177/09646639231187085

Abstract

In The Justice of Humans: Subject, Society and Sexual Violence in International Criminal Justice, Kirsten Campbell sets out to analyze approaches to international justice for victims of mass violence through a feminist lens. Using a remarkable breadth of disciplines, Campbell develops a “feminist social theory of the existing legal and feminist forms of international justice and a socio-legal methodology for empirically investigating them” (p. 4). She draws on her own extensive experience with the conflict in the former Yugoslavia to consider two responses to conflict-related sexual violence there: the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the Women’s Court. The result is a book that not only challenges current capitalist structures in international criminal law, but also offers a constructive and comprehensive set of recommendations for integrating feminist theory and practice into the institution.

Recommended Citation

Shannon Fyfe, Book Review, 32 Soc. & Legal Stud. 999 (2023) (reviewing Kirsten Campbell, The Justice of Humans: Subject, Society and Sexual Violence in International Criminal Justice (2022)).